The Influence of Empowerment and Community Participation towards the Improvement of Community Welfare Recipient Community Empowerment Program Based in the City of Pekanbaru Riau Province

Abstract

The phenomenon used as the object of this research is to improve the welfare of beneficiaries of PMB-RW Program in Pekanbaru City. This research design uses quantitative less qualitative dominant. Quantitative analysis with a sample of 360 respondents using SEM analysis method then SEM analysis results conducted qualitative analysis using descriptive analysis developed by Observer and Triangulation Analysis method from quantitative analysis with 4 informant research determined by purposive sampling. The conclusion of this research is that there is the influence of Empowerment to Improvement of Welfare of Beneficiary Society with the result of measurement coefficient of path reach 0,78, enter "strong" and significant category. The influence of Community Participation on the Improvement of Welfare of Beneficiary Society with the result of measuring the coefficient of lane 0.73, entering the category of "strong" and significant. From the measurement result of multiple regression coefficient, it is known that the contribution of the influence of empowerment (0,594) is bigger than the contribution of Community Participation (0,543) to Improvement of Welfare of PMB-RW Program Relief Society. While the development of the concept obtained is the development of the concept of the Dimensions of Opportunities for Community Empowerment and the development of the concept of Community Participation in Various Development Work. Advice authors to improve the welfare of beneficiaries is done by enhancing, improving and optimizing the performance of the empowerment and participation of active community involvement.